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v|u>v vi iHst came qu
a now head, and otherwise improved.
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Butter, —Is there no butter in the
county? There hasn’t been any in
Hamilton for some time past. If our
country friends would bring some
to town, they could find ready sale
fof it.
car Never have we known pret
tier weather for picking cotton than
wears now having. Aud onr farm
ers aro taking advantage of it by get
ting out and sending to market lots
of the fleecy staple.
J3T Franklin mourns the depar
ture of her barber.
A (loop Aork.—-The La Grange
Bettor ter says that Mr. J. M. Truitt
raised this year, on owe acre, 52 bush
els of corn, evorat%nndred pounds
of fodder and pea vine hay, aud a
goodly rjuantity of peas.
t : 2r Trov has a hco that drinks
l*3r beer every day.
j 64
135 97
Tax Collec-
year, and find
.un i. and and two dol
y-nioe cen'a in arrears,
tally suggest a speedy set
; sa-i-IVLy and diligently
, lit* bonks and vouchers of
(Jo u . fcj- uool Commissioner, J.
.Inlitison, and find that he has
lifuliy ischarged thaduties ofliis
; i. in csery particular, and for the
~rt .ation of all concerned we ap
nd die fallowing exhibit:
DEnrou
To arm nt of Public School fund
Reived otn County Treasurer for
171.
unary, 873 $1,355 39
O' mbt 1873 997 25
$2,352 64
cbedit
y ao>oi t paid teachers,
tr < i mission, as per
v. ,.Jie $2,446 33
Due i uinmissioner 93 09
DEBTOR.
h ptet ' 1873—Amount
e od. from State Treas’r $3,562 16
■\"pm.t paid teachers as
per vouchers 3,460 14
C: :h on hand $ 102 02
Tt'e fi; the roads and bridges in
coup- generally in good condi
tion.
L'l'P ji. house is in' bad condition,
an re ommend a thorough re
;.ir >f tan same, and whitewashing
t'.in inner walls. The court-house is
in gni : condition.
We have elected Flynn Hargett,
'Viiliam ('. Johnston and Win. I.
Hudson embers of the Board ol
lucatiot for this county.
We ho 5 allowed N. IT. Barden,
• tea*, or tie superior v;ouri, nity
a- dais foi extra services for the last'
you; I>. I . Williams, Sheriff, fifty
dollars, ioi 1 J. F. C. Williams, Ordi
nary, fifty dollars.
We recommend that the jurors be
pub! two dollars per day, for this
ten. i of top Court, and the bailiffs
tw<- doli. s per day, and one dollar
per day f< horse.
' We riL L-t to learn of outrages, of
iv.c. in on heretofore peaceful coun
ty, u,ion L e persons and property of
aom- of r citizens, which wo con
demn in lqnalified terms, and ask
jaud mga i ion all well disposed per
-84-oij a. and countenance all violations
of law, no. use all means within their
{power 1 o b ing evil-doers to justice.
Wc id ir the thanks of this body
to li : Ifc.tor, Judge Johnson, for
the c\ lit )us and aide discharge of
luty, nl o Sol. Con. Little for his
>oliu i m ion during our session.
W request these presentments
midi.-.: a 1 in the Hamilton Visitor.
‘ lli nsox, Foreman,
oice'i ! '• iv, James Swint,
il' ’ ' rd'\ I!, J S Irvin,
T !* .'<•< 11, W H Lnttrell,
L Vi ci , T L Davidson,
1 T S el-on, John C Reid,
f O Vie ■' Ainzi Grant,
and Jas. L Whatley,
s, W J Colvin,
H rim'i uin, F M Jenkins,
Br *.-!John M Askew.
( v f s tvannab News says that
'.thus Dispatch is really
dit. make much iuss about
it. imu was because it didn’t have
time—its death was too sudden aud
unexpected for that.
The next legislature \\ ill con
sist of one white Radical, two inde
pendent Democrats, and forty-one
Democrats in the senate, and four
white ami throe colored Radicals,
twelve independent Democrats, and
one hundred aud fifty-nine Democrats
in the house,
jrg; Gov. Smith has ordered anew
election in Habersham, ns there was
a tie in that county.
fcSrThe West Point Press cor
rects the statement it made some
lime since, that Col. Harris loft the
camp ground bn Sunday for the nom
inating convention, by saying that
Col. H. did not leave that day, nor
w be at the convention at all.
jiaT M. M. Barron, of the Frank
lin Ntws, in bis last issue, offers bis
pj>er lor sede.
at
11.
.dels
. , more to
<lition to this
" *’ ■
,r general lias issued
nst ten of the principal
. the State, and will soon
„fl others.
,er one thousand military compa
res have been formed in the State,
and still they come.
The Governor has authorized Dr.
Flewellen, the receiver, to bid a mil
lion and a half for the State, at the
sale of the Macon and Brunswick
road.
Two men in Newton county killed
36 partridges the other day.
A Covington boy recently caught
seven ’coons in one tree.
West Point has received 1,810
bales of cotton since Ist September.
Rockmart is boasting off"a corn
cob shaped like a human hand.
Brimberry, white, is now the only
Radical in the senate.
Ten new stores have been built in
West Point in the last year.
A negro near Lawtonville recently
committed suicide by hanging him
self to a tree. His wife had deserted
him a few hours previously.
The gin-house of Mr. T. B. Law
son, of Stewart connty, containing
six bales of cotton, was recently burnt
by an incendiary.
Greene and Decatur counties went
democratic at the late election, for
the first time since the war.
The gin-house of Mr. 11. Markham,
of Talbot county, containing eight
bales of cotton, together with a grist
and saw mill, were recently burnt.
It is rumored that Gen. Bethune is
running as the Radical candidate for
Congress front the 4th district.
Romo claims a negro girl who
weighs only ninety pounds, but wears
a No. 13 shoe,
A Hancock county negro is run
ning for Congress in the Bth district
in opposition to Hon. A. 11. Stephens
Dalton has two colored schools,
each having 100 scholars.
Judge Weems, of the Macon city
court, recently lined a man SSO and
anal a for whipping his w ife. A rbjhl--
oous verdict.
lion, A. 11. Ste[>hens is a remarka
ble Democrat. In a recent speech at
Augusta he said Grant had done his
duty, and saw no reason why he should
not be elected for a third term.
In Thomas county several of the
leading colored men worked nobly
for the democratic cause, and 150
voted that ticket.
Judge Erskine lately sent three
men to jail at Rome, aud lined them
$2,000, for illicit distilling.
In Meriwether county, the other
day, Jimmie Almau, aged 12, picked
270 pounds of cotton, and, the same
day, S. S. McLendon picked 381
pounds, and Coolie Flemister, colored,
438 pounds.
The Columbus hospital, for the
first time since the war, is without a
pa'i.nt.
The gin-house of A. J. Rowe, in
Meriwether county, containing eight
hales of cotton, was recently burnt
by an incendiary. Loss SI,OOO.
Mrs. It. T. Simons, of Columbus,
lately slipped and fell while cooking
dinner, and displaced the bones of
one of her shoulders.
A little son of J. W. Burdett re
cently died very suddenly in West
Point of croup, 110 eat supper as
usual, aud died before 12 o’clock.
The Cutbbert Appeal says that out
of the 1,093 votes received by Air.
Tuinlin, “ independent ” candidate
for Representative in Randolph
county, nearly 900 were given by
negroes.
The gin-house of Dr. W. A.
, Strother, of Mitchell county, was
burned recently, together with seven
bales of cotton.
The Georgia Grange claims that its
direct trade union will have shipped
100,000 bales of cotton from Savan
nah to Liverpool by November.
The State University commenced
the fall term with 172 students, of
whom nearly one half are new.
A negro boy, sixteen years old,
picked 350 pounds of cotton upon a
plantation near Covington in one day.
The Savannah Advertiser says that
the Grangers have sent about one
hundred bales of cotton to that port
to be sent to Liverpool.
A Berrien county man has a sow
which sports five legs.
A cowardly Sparta man named
John J. Berrjpsbot a negro twice the
other day without provocation.
The Democratic mnjoiity in Geor
gia is estimated at 75,000.
Matters in General.
A mackerel has been caught at
Halifax, N. S, which was nine feet
long and weighed over 500 pounds.
As the rafters of a house in Char
lotte, N. C, wi re being braced, on
the 14th, one of them fell on N. G.
Allison, a carpenter, ind threw him
to the ground, a distance of fifty
feet. Ilis neck and skull were bro
ken, and he died instantly.
Mr. Ross, whose child was kid
napped some time ago, is confined to
his bed, and is bereft of reason.
A freight train on the
and Eufaula railroad lately went
through a trestle fifteen feet high.
The engine passed over safely, but
seven cars were demolished. A train
hand was killed and the engineer
slightly injured.
A defalcation of SI,OOO is repot ted
fn the custom-house at Havana.
11. Emanuel & Cos., the largest
cigar importers in Canada, have
failed. Liabilities $400,000.
Gaza way B. Lamar, who died re
cently in New York, bequeathed one
hundred thousand dollars for the
erection at Savannah of a home for
the aged and infirm negroes.
A San Francisco paper notes the
destruction by fire of a large number
of flour mills in that State during the
past few weeks.
The latest novelty in fashion that
comes to us relates to visiting cards.
When the upper right hand corner
is turned down it signifies that you
have called in person; when the
lower right hand, that you have
merely sent your card with compli
ments ; when the upper left hand,
that your call is congratulatory; when
the lower left hand, consolatory.
The Pennsylvania railroad claims
the largest locomotive in the.country.
It has twelve driving wheels and
weighs seventy-five tons.
Miss Carrie Ballard, of Avoca,
lowa, while on her way to school in
Cincinnati was frightened by some
men on the railroad train trying to
flirt with her to such an extent that
she locked herself in the w'ater-closet
and would not come out. When the
train reached Peoria the door was
forced open and the young lady found
to be insane.
The other Jay when a man at
Paris, Ky., discovered a lire and
yelled “ vvhoop l” thirty or f rty citi
zens pulled out revolvers, “ whooped ”
at him, and began dodging behind
hitching-posts to get the first shot in
on him.
A bov iu Hudson, N. Y., while
digging for fish-worms, a day or two
ago, unearthed his grandfather’s jack
knife, which had lain iu the ground
over sixty years.
For the nine momlis of the pres
ent year 0,488 p t nts have been.is
sued from the United States patent
office, which shows a slight gain on
the monthly average of the two pre
ceding years.
Asa result of the recent eruptions
of Etna a fissure three miles long has
been opened on the northern side of
the mountain, in the course of which
several minor craters arc formed.
Cotton picking is new in full blast
in Fresno county, California. In most
instances Chinese laborers are pressed
into the service, that being the only
species of help obtainable. The crops
are turning out fully as well as antic
ipated.
Few even among the thriftiest
Scotchmen have made a penny go
further than a firm of brass and cop
pei; wire manufacturers, who recently
drew a copper coin into 2,700 feet—
more than half a mile—of wire.
Railroad cars are henceforth to be
supplied with Bibles by the Ameri
can Bible Society.
Mrs. Barclay, a widow of Presi
dent Van Buren, died suddenly at
Newport, a few days ago.
A Paris retail dry goods and no
tion store employs a force of 1,300
clerks and 215 porters, and its trade
requires, for proper transaction, the
use of 35 wagons and 83 horses. All
the employes dine at the establish
ment, and a number of them are
lodged there also.
About twenty-four thousand peo
ple are entirely destitute in Angora,
and will require maintenance through
out the winter.
They have found at Herculaneum
the bust of a woman in solid silver.
It weighs fifty-eight pounds.
American sewing machines are ex
tensively used in Jerusalem, Damas
cus, Aleppo and other cities of the
Orient.
Mark Twain has refused thirty
thousand dollars for fifty lectures.
A gentleman living near La Grange
has a negro woman on his place,
who has bad nine children in tiie
past 5 years—four pairs of twins and
a single one.
H. MIDDLEBROOK,
NOOsAkOAD ST, COLUMBUS, GA,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
Saddles, Bridles, Harness and Martingales,
Has cn hand a large stock of every style and quality, from the cheapest to the last.
Ladies’ and gents’ Trunks, Valises anil Traveling Bags, all styles nfd prices.
Patent Dash Enaißel Leather, Harness, sole nd upper Lcjth. r, ename ed Cloth of „]
kinds Leather and Bobber Belting, Collars. Han.es, Trace-ehan.s, Whips, Blind Bridles
Backhands, Bils, Buckles. Spuis and all ai tildes in this line ufuilhr kept m a flrsbohje^honso!
All goods in my line, will be sold at j-eduefa prices, witb_a jpewof clsßpg outlay
business at an early day. Te rns stricly cash. • ‘ •? m ■
Mr. Mark A Bradford, formerly wijfe; Mr. W. B, Kent, is With me, afid would be pleased
to see all his old customers and friends./ octl6-3m
I, L. POLLARD, E. T. HARRIS,
Formerly of Virginia Store. Of Harris county, Ga.
KEW GROCERY STORE.
FOLLABD Sc HARRIS,
Old stand of JK. Dedd cfc Cos., next door to Chattahoochee Nat. Bard.
A Full Line of FRESH GROCERIES and STAPLE DRY
GOODS Just Received.
Having bought our goods for cash, we shall sell them on a cash basis, guaranteeing our
prices to be as low as any house in the city. Give us a call, and we will do our best to please.
Terms Strictly Cash. No Charge for Drayage.
octl6-6m POLLARD & HARRIS, Columbus, pa.
SADDLES AND HARNESS!
HOME-MADE WORK A SPECIALTY L
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W. R. KENT,
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of
SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, WHIPS,
BITS, SPURS, CURRY-COMBS and BRUSHES.
CARRIAGE, BUGGY, EXPRESS WAGON, CART and DRAY HARNESS, both Single and Double
Wagon, Bug try and Plow Bridles. Wagon, Buggy and Plow Lines.
Wagon and Plow-Hames and Trace Chains. Ladies’ and Gents’ Trunks,
.Valises, Satchels anil Carpet Bags. Baby Carriages. The best Axle and
Harness Grease. Harness, Sole, Upper, Lace and Hame-string Leather.
Also, patent Dash and Enameled Leather. Enameled cloths, Saddle and
Horse Blankets. Saddlery and Harness Hardware.
Any kind of new work made to order, and old work repaired at short notice.
Call and examine, and be convinced that I am determined to sell as cheap
as any other house, regardless of cost. My stock is complete.
Satisfaction guaranteed. W. R. KENT,
oct2- 3m 102 Broad st., Columbus, Ga.
J. S. JONES’
CASH DB.T GOODS HOUSE,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
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FALL PURCHASE.
Especial attention is called to large additions m..ldng to stock adapted to present season.
A large line ot new Hamlmrgs. Anew and desirable iut of Ladies’ Ties.
An immense line of Shawls, all grades, at exceptionally popular prices.
Lillies’ and Children’s Hosiery, Men's and Boys’ Half Ho c.
Mm’s and Ladies’ Merino Ytsts. Full Ino of Black A pacas.
A superb quality of silk-warp AipaCa.
Many desirable Black Mourning Dress Goods —the Cclonna Cloth deserves especial m. n
tion in this line.
Several grades Black Cashmeres and Moriuo*.
Anew t dng in Embroidery is presented in Pique Edgings and Insertings.
Beaded Tiimmings and Beads in end ess quantity.
Beaded Scarfs, Fishus Barlv, Veils aud Veilings. New lot of Buffs, Ituchings, etc.
Immense lines of JEANS and CASSIMEEES.
BLEACHED and BBOWN SHiBTINGS at Satisfactory Prices.
Mr. Eobert Spivey is again with me, and will he glad to see and serve bis /fiends whin
they vi-it the city. sepi2s-lm J. S. JONES.
J. H. HAMILTON,
WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALEB IN
BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN,
SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, Ac., Ac.
FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR!
A Largo Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition.
ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF
Piantation & Family Groceries & Provisions.
Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts,
COLUMBUS - - • GEORGIA.
No charge for Drayage. feb2l-lyr
A- WITTICH- , C- M- KINSEL
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS,
AWUUS AID IIBIIfIiS,
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
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of the Liatost MlaTKifactureS-
Ad entirely new stuck of the best goeds and the latest st\ los hs Veen recently bought in
New York, and is hereby ottered at the Lowest Cash Prices. ,
Diamonds, gold ami silver Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, gold and silver Thimbles, ladies and
gents C hains, plain and fancy Gold King* of l catitilnl workmanship, and every
variety of article fount! in a Jewelry Store.
Stencil I late* of every description cut at shoit notice.
Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agent*
for the Arundel Pebble Specks. which are slightly coidled, and in h’gh favor with evci}-
body using specks or eye-glasses.
Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairin'? in all its branches. Hair Jewelry, Society Badge.-/
Diamond setting; or any new work made to order at reutouablo thurces.
JLW* Engraving promptly executed. o<*2*4yr